Miscellany and Trivia

Anecdotes about Mathematicians, Logicians and Scientists – One

 

MTr 2 bertrand russell 2

The great logician Bertrand Russell (or was it A.N. Whitehead?) once claimed that he could prove anything if given that 1+1=1. So one day, some smarty-pants asked him, “Ok. Prove that you're the Pope.” He thought for a while and proclaimed, “I am one. The Pope is one. Therefore, the Pope and I are one.”